Brussels —The EU voiced alarm on Monday as a survey showed nine of 10 European Jews believe anti-Semitism has worsened in the past five years, calling it a “canary in the coal mine”. The EU’s Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) said 85% of Jews surveyed believe anti-Semitism is the main problem in their country and 38% have considered emigrating.” Whenever communities are set up one against the other, whenever identity politics comes into the game again, then the first victims are always the Jews,” European Commission vice-president Frans Timmermans said. “You need to know that anti-Semitism is like the canary in the coal mine,” he told a news conference. He said Europe had had many diseases in the 20th century but the only one that has “remained incurable is anti-Semitism”. Timmermans said it is the duty of every European politician of every party to fight anti-Semitism, whether at the European, national or local level. He called for better training for law enforcement officials an...
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